Governing Disaster: The Political Life of the Environment during the BP Oil Spill
Governing Disaster: The Political Life of the Environment during the BP Oil Spill
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治理灾难：英国石油公司漏油事件期间环境的政治生活
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2013
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D. Bond
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D. Bond
本文对科学家和联邦官员如何争先恐后地处理墨西哥湾深水井喷进行了深入分析。将环境作为一个引人注目的人种学问题，它表明了石油泄漏和环境如何不像“灾害研究”中通常假设的那样，在灾难期间发生碰撞。相反，原油和环境是实例化的不稳定领域，并在相互关系中具有政治可操作性。英国石油公司的石油泄漏从一个庞大的混乱到一个可控的问题，被安置在一个完善的部署环境。在某种程度上，海洋变成了一个科学实验室，在这个实验室里，扩散的碳氢化合物的真正大小和范围最终得以掌握。这种安排不仅使石油泄漏客观化，而且还悄悄地确定了对灾难的了解以及与灾难的关系可以具有可信度。修改后的环境完全控制了灾难，将这次石油泄漏的生物范围与人类因素隔离开来，并使个人对疾病的描述变得难以置信和难以辨认。隔离和检查石油泄漏的技术开始为灾难与公众之间的脱节提供新的制度。
This article presents an embedded analysis of how scientists and federal officials scrambled to get a handle on the deepwater blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. Taking the environment as a compelling ethnographic question, it shows how the oil spill and the environment are not given objects that then collide during a disaster, as is commonly assumed in “disaster studies.” Rather, crude oil and the environment are unstable fields instantiated and made politically operable in relationship to one another. The BP Oil Spill went from a sprawling mess into a manageable problem by being lodged within a refined deployment of the environment. The ocean was, in a way, transformed into a scientific laboratory within which the true size and scope of diffuse hydrocarbons could finally be mastered. Such placement not only objectified the oil spill, it also quietly defined what knowledge of the disaster and what relations to it could have credibility. The revised environment fully contained the disaster, insulating the biological reach of this oil spill from human considerations and rendering personal accounts of sickness implausible and illegible. Techniques of sequestering and inspecting the oil spill came to underwrite a new regime of disconnection between the disaster and the public.